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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE THIRD BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 14
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Ahijah foretells the ruin of Jeroboam’s house, the death of his child, and the scattering of Israel because of their idolatry—Jeroboam dies and Nadab reigns—Judah, under Rehoboam, turns to wickedness—Shishak of Egypt takes treasures from temple—Rehoboam dies and Abijam reigns.
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At</span> that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
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And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 11: 29 (29-31).">Ahijah</a> the prophet, which told me that <i>I should be</i> king over this people.
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And take with thee ten loaves, and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/3a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR cakes.">cracknels</a>, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
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And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah.  But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he <i>is</i> sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself <i>to be</i> another <i>woman.</i>
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And it was <i>so,</i> when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself <i>to be</i> another?  for I <i>am</i> sent to thee <i>with</i> heavy <i>tidings.</i>
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Go, tell <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 16: 26; 2 Kgs. 3: 3.">Jeroboam</a>, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
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And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and <i>yet</i> thou hast not been as my servant <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 15: 5.">David</a>, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do <i>that</i> only <i>which was</i> right in mine eyes;
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But hast done <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Unrighteous Dominion.">evil</a> above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
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Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 9: 9.">Jeroboam</a>, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, <i>and</i> him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/10b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB burn, consume, destroy.">take</a> away the remnant of the house of <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/10c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 15: 29 (25-30).">Jeroboam</a>, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
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Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath spoken <i>it.</i>
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Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: <i>and</i> when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
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And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found <i>some</i> good thing toward the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
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Moreover the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what?  even now.
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">Israel</a> out of this <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 23: 16 (15-16).">good</a> land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/15c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE the Euphrates.">the</a> river, because they have made their <sup>d</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/15d" mark="d" type="Q" title="HEB asherim; i.e. idolatrous, wooden poles, pillars, or trees; Deut. 16: 21.">groves</a>, <sup>e</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/15e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Provoking.">provoking</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to anger.
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And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 10: 29; 2 Kgs. 13: 2 (12, 11); 2 Kgs. 14: 24; 2 Kgs. 15: 9 (9, 18, 24).">Jeroboam</a>, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
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&#182; And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: <i>and</i> when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
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And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet.
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And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they <i>are</i> written in the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/19a" mark="a" type="D" title="It is significant that the kings of Israel and Judah kept official records; these records are no longer extant; they were used as source books by the author(s) of our books of Kings; they are not our books of Chronicles.">book</a> of the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Chr. 27: 24.">chronicles</a> of the kings of Israel.
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And the days which Jeroboam reigned <i>were</i> two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
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&#182; And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah.  Rehoboam <i>was</i> forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there.  And his mother’s name <i>was</i> Naamah an Ammonitess.
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And Judah did <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">evil</a> in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and they <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Provoking.">provoked</a> him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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For they also built them <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 16: 4 (2-4); Isa. 57: 5.">high</a> places, and <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Chr. 24: 18.">images</a>, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
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And there were also <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/24a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB male prostitutes; devotees of idolatrous, paganistic fertility worship.">sodomites</a> in the land: <i>and</i> they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> cast out before the children of Israel.
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&#182; And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, <i>that</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 11: 40.">Shishak</a> king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
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And he took away the treasures of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
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And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed <i>them</i> unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.
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And it was <i>so,</i> when the king went into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
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&#182; Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all <i>their</i> days.
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And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David.  And his mother’s name <i>was</i> Naamah an Ammonitess.  And <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/14/31a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR Abijah; 2 Chr. 12: 16; OR Abia; Matt. 1: 7.">Abijam</a> his son reigned in his stead.
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